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take you down. >> and i will make sure it does not happen again. of. >> it is obvious that mistakes were made. news4 at 4:00 starts now. a rough day today for the director of the secret service under fire after that lapse in presidential security. good afternoon, everybody. i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. first, breaking news in potomac where two people are dead at two separate scenes. but they may be connected. wendy rieger has details at the live desk. >> pat, this story has been developing over the last half hour and here is what we have learned so far. first, firefighters responded to a crash. it was on river road and piney meeting house. then just minutes later, a fire was reported at a home on great elm drive. that's just about two miles away from that crash. at the crash scene, investigators found a car into a tree and a person dead inside.
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but down the street at the fire, there is also someone dead inside this home. police sources tell us it appears the two scenes are related. chopper four flying over that house, spotting police going in and out of the home. also looking around the perimeter of the property. news4's jackie bensen joins us live with the latest. what have you got? >> reporter: wendy, we want to show what it looks like here. you can see up against the pine tree there, right where piney meeting house road meets river road, you can see that black sedan and the montgomery county homicide detectives and uniformed officers up there on the scene. that is where one of the deceased people has been found. the other scene, as you said, is about two miles north of here. now we can tell you that at the house, which is just north of here, there appear to have been some type of fire. you can see in the video, i understand, from chopper 4, some scorch marks around the garage, and there is -- there are also detectives and uniformed
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officers at that scene where the body of a second person was found. now we do not know if they -- the victims are men, women. we have no information about that. again, this all happened very quickly, short time period, just after 3:00 this afternoon. montgomery county police have sent their public information to the scene and we hope to have more details shortly. jackie bensen, news4. >> thank you. first on 4:00, olympic swimmer michael phelps says he is deeply sorry for his latest dui arrest. he tweeted just a bit ago, saying he takes full responsibility. phel is charged with speeding through the ft. mchenry tunnel in baltimore around 1:30 this morning. an officer clocked him allegedly going 84 miles per hour in a 45 zone. and they say he was swerving across the double lines. the maryland transit officer who stopped him said he could not complete field sobriety tests. this is phelps' second drunk driving arrest.
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he was first charged when he was just 19 years old. a female teacher in stafford county is charged with having a sexual relationship with a student. investigators say erika mesa had the relationship with a 16-year-old this fall and twice last school year. the student it turned 17 at some point during the relationship. she also sent naked pictures, according to police. mesa teaches geometry and coaches volleyball at colonial high school in stafford. the school got an anonymous tip and reported it. >> i think it's a really sad thing she did. we want to keep our kids safe. and it's just unbelievable that it happened to be her. >> mesa is now on administrative leave. she has been a teacher at the school since 2009. her husband is also a teacher it he school. armed with new information today that their daughters' murders connected to other crime, jill and dan harrington went on the "today" show this morning to talk about the breakthrough in the
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investigation and why they're involved in the search for hannah graham, even though they're still dealing with their own grief. >> we have experienced firsthand just the anguish of having a child missing. and we both feel that that period of time was more difficult for us than actually knowing morgan was dead. i would like to appeal to him to please give the family information where hannah is. we need to find hannah graham. >> meanwhile, the attorney representing suspect jesse matthew says police have given him no evidence that links his client to any other crime. the link to the morgan harrington case may be a big break for an unsolved case in our area involving a decade-old assault. news4's pat collins is live in fairfax with more on that connection. pat? >> reporter: pat, that full-court press investigation in charlottesville has detectives backtracking to a sexual assault case that happened here in fairfax nine
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years ago. it now appears that jesse matthew, the suspect in the attacks on two women in charlottesville is also linked to an assault in our area nine years ago. the victim here, a 26-year-old woman sexually assaulted at the oxford row condominium back in september 2005. police say it happened near a swimming pool. they say when someone walked by the suspect took off. at the time, witnesses said the victim was beaten and blooded. now police retrieved dna from that case and five years later, the fbi matched it to evidence found at the murder scene of morgan harrington. she's a young woman who was murdered back in 2009. and now more forensic evidence that links jesse matthew to the disappearance of hannah g she's been missing since september 13th.
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back here in fairfax city, police are working that sex assault case. >> this has to be somewhat of a big break for you all here. having a name that you can put next to that dna evidence. >> again, we continue to follow up on all leads that are provided to our investigators and continue to entertain any tips that are essentially forwarded our way. >> reporter: so we have an attack in 2005. then four years later, another attack in 2009. and then yet another attack five years later in 2014. how do you explain the gap in time? we'll have more about that coming up at 5:00. live in fairfax, pat collins, news4. >> thanks, pat. first at 4:00 today, major questions and concerns about white house security. >> the head of the secret service was blasted on capitol hill after a security breach that turned out to be even more egregious than any of us knew. >> fence-jumper omar gonzalez made it much further into the
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white house than the agency first disclosed. >> he ran across the main floor and through the east room to the green room according to the "washington post." >> it's clear that our security plan was not properly executed. >> i want it to be crystal clear. you make a run and a dash into the white house, we're going to take you down. >> now one remarkable aspect of today's hearing, the bipartisan nature of lawmakers' outrage. steve handelsman live it at the white house with the latest on that part of the story. steve? >> reporter: thanks. pretty much everyone knows what happened when omar gonzalez jumped the fence, going right through the door into that north port co. but what secret service agents did and did not do and why is still not clear to their boss. and she got hammered on capitol hill. >> this is absolutely disgraceful of this has happened. >> r law eventuali r outrage at julia pierson. >> don't let somebody get close
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to the president, his family. >> reporter: she says she is still investigating the first-ever forced intrusion into the white house september 19th. >> i will make sure it does not happen again. >> reporte but as she testified came a fresh disclosure from the "washington post" that fence-jumper, omar gonzalez, who the secret service did not admit until today made it through the unlocked door deep into the white house, was stopped by an off-duty officer who happened to see him. no dogs were released. no shots were fired. >> i want it to be crystal clear. you make a run and a dash into the white house, we're going to take you down. >> reporter: that's not the follows, said pearson. officers are to assess the threat and act fast. she is not sure why they blew it a week ago friday. >> we have a security procedure that wasn't followed. one week prior, an individual had climbed the fence, and was arrested within seco >> reporter: before pierson took charge, in 2011, a gunman fired
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and hit the residence, but the secret service didn't believe it happened and the seven slugs weren't found for four days because officers who knew the truth kept quiet. >> how do you know what the problems are? >> reporter: president obama today was out walking, a reminder that he's a target. and the front door of the white house now locks automatically if there is a threat aler through a spokesman, president obama said ease got full confidence in julia pierson to make needed reforms. live at the white house, steve news4.m >> there is more on this story. "washington post" deputy political editor peter wallston joins us live in our next half hour with new revelations about the culture inside the secret service. standing room only. shoulder to shoulder, morning traffic has metro consumers seeing red today. what the plan is for a permanent fix. plus, the outcry after a
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muslim football player is penalized for praying. guys, we've got some rain for the overnight. that will come from this front still outside maryland. we're talking about some more morning fog. i'll tell you how thick, and yes, not just a rain chance but a thunderstorm chance before the week is over. it's all next on news4 at 4:00.
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packed platforms and crowded trains this morning has led to lingering frustration for metro riders from dupont circle to silver spring. a cracked rail snarled the morning commute and thousands of riders were seeing red. metro had to find an alternate route for people and trains bypassed two stations to help minimize the delays. they were back to normal around 10:15 this morning, but the impact was felt as far away as rockville.
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>> people are very frustrated. some weren't even getting on the trains. at the platform they left the doors open so people just started leaving and either to walk or take the bus. so they were just looking forality it actives wherever they could find them. >> in is the second time in two months a cracked rail has caused major delays. on news4 at 5:00, transportation reporter adam tuss will have details on what metro is doing about this problem. as it turns out, it's okay for football players to do the same thing the fans have been doing forever. pray during an nfl game. this afternoon, the nfl admits that kansas city chiefs' safety hussein abdullah should not have been penalized when he fell to his knees in prayer. he had had just intercepted a tom brady pass. abdullah was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct because league rules prohibit a player from celebrating while on the feel. but this afternoon an nfl
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spokesman says players should not be flagged for a religious expression while on the ground. it's a bizarre trend. why curious iphone customers are conducting their own not so scientific tests inside apple stores now. hot 99.5's cain is in the house and on the case. and say goodbye to rows of desks with teachers at the front of the class. how your kids will learn in the classroom of the f latte or au lait? cozy or cool?
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4:00. many teachers these days still write on chalk boards. they do their lessons that way. many students take notes and raise their hands if they want to speak. that's pretty much been the traditional classroom experience. >> but many schools are starting to take a very different approach to teaching and learning. cnbc's sharon epperson takes a look now at what could become the classroom of the future. >> reporter: the classroom of the future will look a lot different than the classrooms of today. gone will be the rows of desks with teachers at the front of the class. the redesign of the classroom will look more like a working, living play space. >> if you think about the traditional classroom, you know, we have this image of the teacher telling the students to be quiet and waiting for their turn to talk. and i think really the redesign of the classroom of the future is just the opposite. we want them to talk. >> reporter: with school days filled with student discussion and interaction, the teacher's role will also evolve. >> the teacher might be sitting
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and observing silently. she might be working one-on-one with one child on the floor. she might be giving a lesson to a small group of students. there is an ebb and flow that happens in the classroom. >> repor as for lessons, they'll be entirely virtual, to be accessed online, on demand, outside of school. >> the real power of the technology is to allow them to work at their own pace. to personalize education for them and then free up class time. >> reporter: educato are already experimenting with what is known as this flipped classroom model. it's a glimpse of what's to come and will radically change the .raditional classroom sharon epperson, cnbc business news. >> supporters of the flipped classroom say students do not get as frustrated, because they can get instant feedback. and teachers have more time to explain difficult concepts. however, there are down sides. for example, experts say if those online videos are not integrated into the class work carefully, it could create confusion. >> remember the days when we
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could just draw on weather maps? you guys are way beyond that. you could be drawing some raindrops overnight tonight. >> these are just going to be scattered about. not going to impact the evening rush or the early part of our night as you'll see in a moment. the timing on this rain. meanwhile, tracking fall color. not so much around here. have to hit the mountains. but around the great lakes. look it at this. if you look there, you can see the shades of oranges and reds and yellows, all that brightness there. this is an image taken from nasa a couple days ago. you search for just the right view, how about that and, of course, we've got a lot more coming up on the fall color and what you can expect forecast wise for the fall. the early part of winter coming up on storm team 4, tracking fall. that's the third saturday morning in october. we're at 80 degrees in rockville. a little warm there. 79, college park too. some folks, yeah, they're going short sleeves today. as promised, we have warmed up. 76 in camp springs. 73 in ft. belvoir and looking
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like a great evening with a mix it at your of clouds and sunshine. now we're dry at 9:00 p.m. that temperature drops to 67. i don't think we're going to need the jacket or even the umbrella. we're talking about scattered, light raindrops between midnight and 4:00 a.m. so 5:00, 6:00 a.m., we're dry across the area. as you'll see in my future weather coming up here, not a lot of rain, fairly light. it's in, it's out. but here's the front that will produce it already into morgantown, thunder outside morgantown. our area pretty much quiet. as this comes on into the area, it's a weak weather front. it will produce just a few showers across the area. this system weakening. the next system and i should say for the end of the week, is going to be strengthening. here we are at 10:30. hagerstown, frost berg, getting rain and a little scattered rain too at 2:00 a.m. areas like baltimore, up i-95, fredericksburg, quantico, leonardtown. light showers. by the time we get to 5:00, 6:00 a.m., everything is going to be
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waning, diminishing, except that fog. there will be some more patchy fog around tomorrow morning. as was the case this morning, as promised, dense fog advisory for some of our counties. by 3:00 tomorrow, isolated to scattered rain drops around the area. but still the impact forecast for tomorrow, i'm calling it none. because that fog will i think be not quite as dense, and i doubt we see as many counties under a fog advisory for tomorrow morning. 77 degrees, the high temperature for tomorrow. 74 culpeper, just as warm. the temperatures tomorrow, look at this even at the end of the week, at 77 degrees. but it's rain coming in, a 60% chance late in the day. i'll take you through an hourly forecast friday and if it's going to impact the game coming up later in the newscast. >> thanks, veronica. the service was terrible. they waited 20 minutes for a glass of water. and more than an hour for their food. so why did one young couple leave their waiter a giant tip for lousy service? the answer has gone viral today.
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plus, what stole the spotlight during paris fashion week. hot 99.5's cain is coming your way next. and we want to hear from you about the stories that get you going. first at 4:00. follow us on twitter and on facebook too. we're coming right back.
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you're watching news4 at 4:00. it's the next phase in apple's mission to tell you what you want before you want it. apple crashed fashion week in paris to promote its brand new smart watch. the tech giant set up shop inside collette one of the trendiest boutiques in paris and put out word that consumers had one day and one day only to get a real-life look at the watch that doesn't even go on sale until next year. >> oh, my goodness. speaking of apple, some teenage pranksters on a bending spree? >> hot 99.5's cain joins us in the studio with stories people are talking about. so cain, we did the story about the new iphones. >> yeah. >> but people are showing up at apple stores now to make a point. >> oh, they're making a point. they're bending them and putting the videos of them bending them in the apple stores online. this is not a good idea. you don't own the phone. it belongs to someone else. and now these are becoming viral. "consumer reports" did a study on how much weight it takes to
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bend an iphone 6, 90 pounds compared to 160 for other phones. but people are going into stores and literally bending the display models, which obviously is making apple very unhappy. >> yeah, i would imagine they're getting into trouble. are they having to pay for these? >> you will get into trouble, yes. that should go without saying. >> generally, you give good service at a restaurant and you get a good tip. so how in the world do you get a big tip for bad service? >> now, this is a couple that previously owned a restaurant. so they know what it's like. it was one server, 12 tables and a bar that he was looking after on saturday night. that's steve and mckenzie schultz out for their anniversary. and t realize it's the context you have to take into things before you take action. so they decided to leave a $100 tip on their $60 bill which is 150% because they wanted to pay it forward, which they we think is sweet. >> you know we're coming up on two weeks today since we have
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had our beard-off contest, playoff beards for the nationals. cameras come in. because you grow yours in the off season. >> radio people, i can have a full-on beard. i present to you the trimmer. please tell me you have used one of these before with a guard on it. >> i've never seen that in my life. >> this is like a lawn mower but set to a certain length. so you have these guards you would use. and then you, i assume, would probably be a number three. you, my friend, you're going to go for the full-on bushman. what you do is -- i can't believe this. all you do is you trim, trim, trim. keep it looking good. and if it's itchy down here, you shave and make an outline. >> i feel like the odd man out here. >> that's how you do that. >> and you want the neck shaved, right? >> sometimes i want the neck shaved, sometimes i don't. it depends on how i'm feeling. >> what's it going to do for the itch, help or not? >> you can take that any way you
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want. entirely up to you. it should help with the itch. >> you asked for that. >> i did. so now you have your very own. i'll get you one too. i know he's a germaphobe. >> week two. thanks for coming by. this is a really hairy situation here. it wasn't the gun itself that was the problem, but where one man tried to take it lands him in big trouble this afternoon. plus, is the president safe inside his own home? the secret service under fire again today for major security lapses. up next, we're bringing in "washington post" deputy political editor peter wallston, live. in cases of rape and incest, just like the right-wing republicans in congress. they want to overturn roe v. wade. so does she. "i think roe v. wade should be overturned." barbara comstock even voted with right-wing republicans to require women seeking an abortion
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you're watching news4 at 4:00. right now at 4:30, natural, fresh, even healthy. how 7-eleven is changing things up in its stores. >> we are getting answers about lingering delays after the attack on an air traffic center at chicago's o'hare airport. >> welcome back, everybody at 4:30, i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. first breaking news now. a grand jury here in the district just returned a three-count indictment against white house fence-jumper omar gon secret service director julia pierson had to answer for her response to the intrusion a week and a half ago now. and even as she was testifying, the "washington post" was uncovering more surprising details about this incident. >> we have now learned the
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intruder was tackled by an off-duty secret service agent. "washington post" deputy political editor peter wallston joins us with the latest. peter, lawmakers say they are learning more from your reporting than they are from official briefings. what's been the biggest surprise to you so far? >> well, a couple of things. i think the same thing surprised me that surprised a lot of americans, which is just how insecure the white house actually is. that a guy can jump a fence and make it all the way in, he can run for some 20 seconds, maybe it not only in the front door of the white house as we thought until yesterday, but actually all the way through the main floor of the white house to the other end. before being tackled. and then also we learned in a report over the weekend in the "washington post" by my colleague, carol leonnig, the when somebody was able to fire shots at the white house and the damage wasn't discovered for
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five days. just that that can happen. somebody can drive up, park a car, fire a weapon and leave undetected. there no surveillance cameras around the white house to capture that happening. and there were no sensors, even though they're all over the city, no shot sensors near the white house to pick that up. those are shocking developments, i think, that will surprise a lot of people who tend to think of the whitehouse as being this incredibly secure place. >> and peter, while we're on that 2011 incident involving the gunshots, we know that the first lady's mother was in the white house at the time. so was their daughter sasha. what was the first couple's reaction to this, and i hear that they learned about it from someone in the living quarters, some staff? is that right? >> that's right. the -- a house keeper actually discovered the damage on the trim and balcony on the second floor of the residence five days after the shooting in preparation for the first -- for actually the first lady returning home. and an usher asked her about it,
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assuming she had been told. she hadn't been told. that was the first she had heard about it days later. so she was upset. the president, we're told, was very upset. and the first lady actually dressed down the director of the s secret service at the time, and her voice was raised so high that people standing outside a closed door could hear it. >> peter, there are questions about whether there's just a cultural problem at the agency in light of what happened in colombia and the 2011 shootings and the fence jumping. and then there is the question of whether there are enough resources coming from capitol hill because of sequestration and budget cuts. >> some of that came up today. we're going to have to learn more about that. i think some of the lawmakers were surprised today to learn that the agency is down -- i think the director said some 500 people. they're proposing to cut more.
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a lot of these officers are young. they've had a lot of turnover. there have been morale issues in the agency. so it seems like that's a pretty troubled place right now. and it looks like people are turning their attention to that. >> peter wahlston, thank you for your great work and taking time with us. we appreciate it from the "washington post." >> you're welcome. thanks for your questions. don't get your baby started on the wrong foot. we've got a baby shoe recall to tell you about. plus, how a financ guru hopes to change things up at get out and exercise this evening. no issues whatsoever. warmer than yesterday and dry. so temperatures dropped from the mid and upper 70s to 70 degrees by 9:00. we'll give you a look at an hourly forecast for the rain at the end of the week, all next.
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you're watching news4 at 4:00. we want to hear from you about the stories that get you going first at 4:00. so follow us on facebook and twitter. kansas city chief fans are now number one in the nfl. just before halftime of last night's game against the patriots, the team announced a new guinness world record for noise. an ear-splitting 142.2 decibels. that beats last year's record set by seattle fans.
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team not only encouraged the noise. workers handed out tens of thousands of ear plugs to fans. baseball fans in the dmv are getting ready for baseball for the playoffs, of course. the nats play their first game friday afternoon. we're waiting to find out who they play. the nats will face the winner of tomorrow's giants-pirates wild card game. if the pirates win, the nats will host them on friday at 12:07:00 p.m. if the giants win, the game starts at 3:07 at nats park. >> bring them on. a surprise announcement today from ebay. ebay and paypal are splitting up. after spending much of this year explaining why the two companies should stay together, ebay's board and ceo did an about-face today. ebay plans to spinoff its payment service into a publicly traded company next year. ebay says today the move is the best path for the company's growth. investors applauded the news, sending ebay shares up 8%.
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you're going to get a look at the much-anticipated all-new f-150 pickup. ford is taking a huge gamble with this 2015 model. the body is made primarily of aluminum instead of steel. that makes the truck 700 pounds lighter and lighter means it's more fuel efficient. however, some skeptics wonder if aluminum will be strong enough to hold up to the it typical daily grind drivers put it through. ford insists this new model is up to the task. it arrives at the dealerships later this year. the f-150 is america's top-selling vehicle. all right. slide over slurpee. 7-eleven is now offering up some healthier options. the convenience store chain is now testing and marketing a line of healthy sandwiches, wraps, juices, even salads. yep, salads at 7-eleven. they're from tony horton kitchen brand. the guy behind those popular workout videos. don't fret, the chain is not ditching doughnuts, hot dogs and
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nachos. they'll still be there, along with these new options. and we have a recall to tell you about involving a line of baby shoes. thousands of first impressions hightop infant sneakers are being recalled. the problem is a small metal eyelet inside the shoes. it can break off and the child could choke on it. they were sold by macy's department stores nationwide in february and august of this year. you can return your shoes -- your baby's shoes to macy's or visit our website, nbcwashington.com, to get more information. why dozens of women rallied on capitol hill today. plus, a woman walking in montgomery county is approached a masked man, then stabbed. how she's doing right now, plus who police are tracking down.
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you're watching news4 at 4:00. new information right now about a body found in fairfax county. police have now identified the body as that of 16-year-old cara lingo golias. she had been missing since sunday. the medical examiner is working now to determine what caused her death. but they say they don't suspect any criminal activity. cara went to fairfax high school. we were at the school this morning. students there wore blue in her honor. they say she was a very quiet, but very nice girl. a woman is in serious
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condition this afternoon after recovering from a vicious stabbing. the woman was attacked at an apartment complex along piney branch road in silver spring. now police are looking for the person who did it. news4's megan mcgrath tells us about the search. >> reporter: montgomery po are trying to track down a knife-wielding man who stabbed a woman in silver spring last night. very seriously injuring her. it happened a little bit before 8:00 in the 9300 block of piney branch right, right near the entrance of the forest park apartments. police say the suspect tried to rob the woman, and became violent, stabbing her. investigators say there were witnesses in the area. they came to her defense, calling 911, but the suspect got away. now we spoke to a man whose sister saw it happen. he doesn't want to be identified on camera. >> she did say when she was coming back she witnessed the dude trying to grab her and he stabbed her a couple times.
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and then the police came and i was glad she was safe. the woman didn't die, so i think that's -- we're just happy. we hope she feels better. >> reporter: initially it was feared the victim wasn't going to make it. she had very serious stab wounds. howeve once she was taken to the hospital they were able to stabilize her and she is expected to pull through. anyone with information about the whereabouts of this armed suspect you are asked to call montgomery county police. in silver spring, megan mcgrath, news4. miss credit the witnesses who called police with saving the victim's life. someone tried to get through security at vwi marshal with a loaded gun in his carryon yesterday. a tsa officer detected the gun as the bag was being screened. the pennsylvania man also had eight rounds of ammo in that bag. the tsa confiscated the .40 caliber semi automatic weapon and arrested the man on a state
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weapons charge. this is the seventh firearm to be confiscated this year. in addition to criminal charges, passengers who take guns to check points could be fined up to $11,000. five days after a man sabotaged a commission air traffic facility, many travel plans are still up in the air in disarray. and now the faa is ordering a full security review and contingency plans at their facilities. thousands of flights were cancelled after a contract employee allegedly set' fire at the chicago center. some were questioning why there wasn't more security and how one person could ground so many flights. >> definitely a big wake-up call. we had one person on their lonesome doing work on sensitive equipment. >> the faa is beefing up security at airports across the country. it will take at least two weeks to rebuild chicago center. so veronica, when are we going to get more rain and how much?
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>> we're not going to get a lot of rain friday. but we have our best chance, what we have seen in a while. i do think we could have a thunderstorm or two around the area. that, of course, means the chance for some wind. what follows behind that front, guys, ooh, big changes for the weekend. look at that. as we take a look around the area right now, a teeny, tiny bit of fall color on the national mall there showing up. and i do mean a teeny tiny bit. but the wind could knock the drier leaves off. the issue for tomorrow morning, in fact, even starting tonight, will be the fog. and what you're seeing here, these patches of white, that's where the fog will be setting up around loudoun county and hagerstown to the north and west, as was the case last night and this morning. that means patchy fog throughout our area, i-95, even 301 again. areas of 81 and 70. fog across the area that could last as long as it did this morning, up until 8:00, 9:00 a.m. you can see around quantico, fredericksburg, fog coming our way wednesday. and that means your troubles
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might be slowed down a bit. we'll be in the 60s. so you might need a light jacket to the north and west. but roads will be dry in the morning. roads will be dry even in the afternoon as we see warmth across the area. that temperature like today into the upper 70s. in fact, i think we hit 70s easily by lunch time. we should stay around 70 degrees by around 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. tomorrow evening. we go up, we go back down. tomorrow a good day to get out. meanwhile, on friday, let me show you the rain coming in. this is at 3:00. watch the green that starts heading in. this is at 6:00. just off to our west around hagerstown, la ray, staying west. that's the way it's looking now for friday afternoon. so that means with that rain coming in late, that 60% chance, what we get then is a great day, i think, to go to the game for the afternoon forecast. kind of hard to tell exactly what time that's going to be. 77 at 3:00 p.m. 73 with showers after 6:00. and look at the cool weekend. some of our lowest readings coming our way sunday morning.
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our coolest breading since last spring. a jacket kind of weekend, long sleeves coming up. guys? >> thanks, veronica. d.c.'s speed cameras appear to be working so well the city may soon be facing a budget crisis. d.c. officials expected speed cameras to generate nearly $94 million by today. according to the "washington post." but as of the end of august, the cameras have only generatesed about $26 million in revenue. while city leaders say they're thrilled that fewer people are getting tickets, they say all that red ink could lead to major budget cuts. if you live in fairfax county, there are just a few days left to pay your car tax. officials there trying to take some of the pain out of the process. they're e it tending the hours to pay the tax bill at the government center. tonight, tomorrow and friday, the center will be open until 6:00. thursday until 6:30. and saturday from 8:00 until noon. you can pay by cash, check or credit card. and, of course, you can still
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pay online. it was old home week at the d.c. council today. the council welcomed back former council members and former mayors as they all took photographs to celebrate 40 years of home rule for the district government. the only living mayor who did not attend was adrian fenty. the council is planning other celebrations of the 1973 vote to congress to give the cities limited authority to govern itself. they say they are fed up with eating disorders. more than 100 mothers from across the country got together on capitol hill today to raise awareness about eating disorders, and to erase the stigma that keeps some sufferers from getting treatment. they say 20% of people with serious eating disorders die without treatment. so they're urging congress to pass the freed act that calls for new research and education, as well as appropriate
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treatment. >> people will go into a hospital, they'll have one or two days of treatment and then they'll say oh, well, you ate yesterday so you're fine to go . and it's killing people. >> the activists say proper treatment can lower the death rate from eating disorders to about 3%. first responders in pjs couns couy are gett everyone to think pink. breast cancer awareness month begins tomorrow. there are now two pink fire trucks, and the pink ambulance in service throughout the county. the second truck was dedicated today. now some stories we're working on in our news room. violence at school. a manhunt is under way right now after a school shooting in kentucky. we'll bring the breaking details. plus, new cases of vandalism in northern virginia that apparently target the hindu community. and we continue to follow breaking news out of potomac, maryland, tonight, where two people are dead. wendy rieger working the story from the live desk for us. wendy, what are you hearing? >> reporter: right now police have shut down a couple roads in
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that area as they investigate these related scenes. both directions of great elm drive are closed in a two-block section of piney meeting house road, which is just off river road. shut down. this all started with a car that crashed into a tree on piney meeting house about 3:00 this afternoon when police got there, they found someone in that car was dead. shortly after that crash, firefighters learned there was a fire on great elm, and they found a person dead inside this house. again, police tell us these scenes are related, although they're not telling us yet how they are related. news4's jackie bensen is collecting more infon f you. she's going to have a live report coming up on news4 at 5:00, and i will see you then. back to you. >> new developments today after a missing arkansas realtor is found dead. what the man arrested for her murder told reporters on camera. a frustrating morning for metro riders as a cracked rail leads to some big delays. i'm adam tuss. we'll tell you why it all
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you're watching news4 at 4:00. a tragedy end in the search for an arkansas real estate agent. her body has been discovered in a shallow grave near little rock. the man accused of abducting and killing her was in court this morning as shannon miller reports, he says he did it, because, quote, she was rich. >> reporter: in custody for the death of beverly carter is
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33-year-old aaron lewis. arrested monday on kidnapping charges, lewis is now charged with capital murder. lewis' reason for targeting carter is chilling. why beverly? >> she was a rich broker. >> do you have anything to say to the family? >> i'm sorry. >> reporter: this morning in court, lewis initially said he wanted to plead guilty. then changed his plea. >> i just want this all over with. >> would you be willing to plead guilty to capital murder charges? >> reporter: it is still not clear exactly what led authorities to carter's body or how they linked lewis to her disappearance. >> investigators who have been working diligently on this case developed some information and the search last night after he was placed in jail. and her body was discovered after midnight. >> reporter: carter, who was a wife, mother and grandmother, had been missing since showing a house on thursday. in a statement, her family said, quote, we are devastated at the
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loss of our precious beverly. there is now a hole in our hearts that will never be filled. end quote. lewis is formally charged with capitol murder, kidnapping and robbery and is being held without bond. shannon miller, nbc news. >> the victim's body was buried near a concrete company where, according to one newspaper report, lewis used to work. news4 at 5:00 begins with breaking news. we begin with two big stories. right now, there are two death investigations under way at separate scenes in potomac, maryland. one of them, at a house that was set on fire. the other inside that car that was found on the side of the road. and police believe these scenes are connected. and shots fired inside a school today. cameras are there as children evacuate and there is late word just into news4 that the manhunt for the gunman has just ended. we're going to begin with that breaking news in montgomery county. those two deaths under
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investigation not far apart. one at a house on great elm drive. the other, the side of the road at river and piney meeting house. >> chopper 4 has known over both scenes to give us a birds-eye view. we go live to news4's jackie bensen on the ground near the car crash. jackie, what have we learned in this past hour? >> reporter: jim, sources tell news4 one of the deceased is a man. the other is a woman. investigators from montgomery coun police are here on the scene, trying to piece together the details after this mercedes sedan was found smashed into a tree, a man dead inside. the second is a couple miles away on great elm road. sources say there had been some type of fire and a deceased woman was found. the timing and the location between the two scenes left investigators suspendin a connection. a short time ago, a spokesperson for the police department gave us a time line of the responses.
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>> we received the communications center, a call at 2:33 p.m. that call was for a personal injury collision on piney meeting house road at representative road. officers responded, located one person in that vehicle. that person is deceased. at 2:34 p.m., our communications center received a call for a fire at a nearby residence. officers responded to that residence and located a deceased person. >> reporter: right now police are waiting for a search warrant to go inside that house on great elm and to continue trying to put together the pieces of exactly what happened here. live in potomac, jackie bensen, news4. we have more breaking news this evening. a suspended teen gunman is now in custody after a school shooting in kentucky. this happened this afternoon at fern creek high school. it's just south of louisville. pat lawson muse is at our live desk with details. pat? >> reporter: wendy, we have just learned that police officers captured the teenager within wag

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